Music
Forever plaid
It’s not quite the worst thing ever, but if you’re thinking of going to see The Ghost Wolves perform at Madelife in Boulder on Wednesday, Aug. 6, know that they are pretty sick of getting compared to The White Stripes...
Slanted Jack
Saturday, January 18: Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922...
Great American Taxi goes big
To hear Vince Herman tell it, Great American Taxi’s second CD, that ever-dreaded sophomore effort thing, found itself looped out in the exhausted vagaries of a dysfunctional post-millennial record business. Just when people are getting back into actually making ...
Spooking the horses
A name like Riot Fest isn’t subtle. And back in July, neither were the residents of Byers, Colo...
Climate classicism
What’s the sound of a biosphere on the brink? For Drew Hemenger, the answer to that question lies in a multitude of voices. That’s why...
A solo show at Pat Metheny’s Cirque du Solenoid
 In the expansive liner notes accompanying Pat Metheny’s latest project Orchestrion%uFFFD the storied jazz guitarist reflects on his days as a little kid visiting relatives in Wisconsin and sneaking downstairs to the basement to noodle around with an antique ...
Who the hell is Tyler Bates?
It’s around one in the morning in Kiev, Ukraine, and Tyler Bates is just settling into his hotel room. It’s the first day of...
Revenge therapy
The latest offering from Plasma Canvas kicks off with a slow burn. “Hymn,” the opening track on the Fort Collins quartet’s new album DUSK,...
Electric Red: Ghosts of fusion past
You hear it immediately, and practically see it, too. The glowering and stooped visage of post-Bitches Brew Miles Davis, prowling across a stage and cueing one of his sidemen for a solo with a hand gesture, the trumpet pointed south, the music tightening and ...
Citizen Cope has flitted from label to label and now has...
Citizen Cope has never been an artist that has enjoyed much radio play or even a big push from his record companies, even though he has spent his entire career up to now on major labels...
White Swan Records celebrates 20 years of yoga tunes
Yoga is a practice used by fans of fitness and spiritual gurus — and in most every class there is music playing in the background as limber bodies flex between postures. For the past 20 years, local record company White Swan Records has been distributing, recording ...
GALLERY: The Black Angels at the Fox Theatre on May 5
Check out photographer Dane Cronin's sweet, sweet pics from the May 5 Black Angels show at Fox Theatre. Click here for our preview of the show, where we interview frontman Alex Maas.
